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Originally Posted by Voice  Jesus. I'm sorry if this insults anyone, but it is just amazing that anyone still believes fluoride is anything but toxic. Even among a group of supposedly intelligent people on a forum like this, it is debated rather than clearly understood. This shows the power of propaganda, denial, and misplaced trust. |
I guess you never read my post then. I've been over this before.
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Originally Posted by Voice Fluoride was added to the water in German POW camps. Why? To make the prisoners DOCILE and STUPID. Gee, why would you want a docile and stupid population of Americans??? |
That's somewhat of a fallacy.
Large doses of fluorides (mostly as the sodium salt, sodium fluoride) were added to the drinking water of POWs, as they believed it to cause lethargy. Fluoride ions are thought to block acetylcholine receptors in the brain due to similar actions that have been observed with studies on the peripheral nerves, although nothing has ever been proved conclusively. The concentrations present in drinking water today are far lower; the effect on the brain has never been measured as anything above non-existant.
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Originally Posted by Voice Other chemicals added to drinks like soda, such as aspartame (approved against medical advice thanks to the CEO and neocon/fascist Donald Rumsfeld) raise similar, serious health questions. |
Much of that has to do with genetic defects which cause phenylketonuria, an inability of the body to remove the amino acid phenylalanine from the body, which accumulates and can cause brain damage. Aspartame is a dipeptide; that is, two amino acids joined together by a peptide bond (the other amino acid being aspartic acid, if I remember correctly).
Minute trace amounts of aspartame have also been shown to be turned into methanol (a compound very similar to ethanol, which is the alcohol humans drink recreationally) in the small intestine. Methanol in high quantities can cause blindness, brain damage and even death, but is quickly converted into formaldehyde in the body, which is also a byproduct of the metabolism of ethanol. You would need to consume some seriously high quantities of aspartame to cause any damage by this method; the intolerance to aspartame in phenylketonuria sufferers is far more dangerous.
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Originally Posted by Voice Fluoride also accumulates in and blocks the pineal gland, which is a very important organ in the brain. It's function is not fully understood, but is related to higher states of consciousness. It produces the so-called 'spirit molecule' DMT. This is probably the source of the comment about stopping people from seeing aliens. |
Dimethyltryptamine is a seriously loopy drug. It has nothing to do with this.
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Originally Posted by Voice Reading the comments in this thread and the widespread ignorance just convinces me yet again that Americans are dooming themselves to total enslavement. Not too bright, people. Not too bright at all. But drink what you will. And trust those corporations and govt agencies to mind your health. I'm sure that's a wise move. Yeah. |
Now where did I put my eye-rolling smilie?
Oh, here it is.
